Ernesto García Camarero
(Asociación Cultural Banquete)
Mathematician, computer scientist, library and information specialist, and science historian. Professor of Automata and Formal Language Theory (Teoría de Autómatas y lenguajes formales) at the UCM and at numerous Latin American universities. He was the Director of the Calculation Centre at the UCM and president of the Spanish Society for Science and Technical History. He has worked on the application of the linguistic model to behaviour simulation and the representation of knowledge via semantic networks. President of the 2nd International Congress on Databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Author of numerous works including Computer Art, L’Ordinateur peut-il créer une oeuvre d’art? (IBM Informatique, Paris), Experiencias y proyectos en "Computer Graphics" del CCUM (Conference on Systems, Networks and Computers, Mexico), and L’art cybernétique (SIGMA 9. Bordeaux). He designed the automation system at the National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional) (1982-1983) and the encyclopedic and multimedia project called Five Hundred Years Later (Quinientos años después).
